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98
HJØRRING.
Chap. XXXV.
and moors, it appears splendid. We walk in the shady
public gardens, provided with merry-go-rounds and
gymnastic poles, listen to the music of a German
band we should have fled from distraught at Dover or
Brighton, and think it exquisite. The family of the
pastor offered us their services for an evening walk,
so we climbed with them to a høi commanding a
view of everything for thirty miles round; the sea at
twelve miles’ distance, which looks so placid this
afternoon—too gentle to crush the sea-egg shipwrecked on
its sands, or to buffet the stranded sardine—with a west
wind in winter season becomes terrible. The natives
hear it roaring, deafening all sound, all speech, when
at Christmas-time they gather around their festive board,
or lie wakeful in their beds, and address a prayer to
Providence for the safety of those afloat upon its
waters.
Some two miles Danish from Hjørring lies the manor
of Asdal, one of the most ancient in Jutland. It is a
farm-house, remarkable now alone for its side of bacon
—a side of greater historical notoriety than even that
of Dunmow, for this very flitch you see hanging up,
a shrivelled rusty bone, dates from almost five hundred
years.
It was in the early part of the fourteenth century that
Karl Pølse, lord of Asdal, was accustomed to turn out his
swine in the autumn to feed in the neighbouring forest
together with those of the lord of Odden. The
proverb at that time ran, “ Odden the old, and Asdal
the boldand a certain rivalry existed between the
neighbours.
The winter drew nigh, and the swine, fattened by
beech-mast diet, were now herded, and driven home to
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